MEDINA, Ohio - At their meeting Tuesday morning, Medina County commissioners will discuss an anonymous donor's offer of $10,000 to have the county animal shelter's gas chamber turned over to the Medina County SPCA to be destroyed.
'I will be attending the meeting to further the discussion,' SPCA director Stephanie Moore confirmed today.
In keeping with the vague agendas the commissioners routinely issue, the one for Tuesday's meeting includes no mention of the gas chamber controversy that has fueled public outcry. (See the agenda below.) And county officials have not responded to The Plain Dealer's repeated requests for confirmation that the issue will be addressed.
The offer of $10,000 came in response to the commissioners' unanimous decision at last week's meeting to sell the gas chamber on an Internet auction, a move that met with much public criticism. That resolution will have to be amended or rescinded in order for the commissioners to accept the terms of the donation.
Teresa Landon, the director of the Ohio Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said she was 'horrified that the Medina County commissioners would even consider' selling the county animal shelter's gas chamber at auction.
'The death box must be destroyed, cut up and sold as scrap metal,' she said.
Moore, director of the Medina County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, last week called the chamber a 'thing of the past' that should be destroyed.
The anonymous donor called Moore last Wednesday and said the donation would have to be given to the Medina SPCA for the care of cats. The local non-profit began taking in more cats last month, after the commissioners voted to stop accepting cats at the county shelter that killed them in the gas chamber.
Thousands of dogs and cats, including 289 cats last year, were killed in the 20-year-old chamber before public outcry led the commissioners to stop accepting cats at the shelter built for dogs. The county stopped killing dogs in the chamber several years ago due to public opposition.
The commissioners paid $13,000 to the SPCA to take in owner-surrendered and friendly stray cats. The SPCA won't accept feral cats, as they are not adoptable.
The $13,000 came out of the county's profit on the sale of dog licenses. The dog kennel fund surplus stands at more than $300,000.
The county shelter has also been criticized for using improper drug doses to kill dogs by lethal injection. In response, county officials said the shelter workers will be retrained.
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